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Kagi are one of my favorite companies. In a world where buying a T-shirt requires me to hand over my phone number ("in case we need to contact you about your order" - yeah, right) I find it so refreshing that kagi barely require any info from me except some form of payment.

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At least you got your shirt. I waited for many, many months, where I consistently checked to see if they were out. They happened to release them during a very short window of time in which I didn't go to my email; I never got to have the shirt.

https://store.kagi.com/

The shipping companies seem to demand it from the sender.

But they never use it so just fill in a random number.

They do if needed. AliExpress at one point required my address to be in full UTF-8 representation that I wasn't comfortable with, what I assume to have been the post office called me twice without caller ID, and the package got "delivered" to random neighborhood of the airport hundreds of miles away.

They don't call you if you live in a cleanly ASCII representable address with zero ambiguity and you don't have to be contacted from customs. Otherwise the courier do use the number.

For what it's worth, UPS has called me multiple times when a nearby hill was too slippery for their truck to make it up. I met them at the base of the hill to pick up my package. Your experience != universal experience.

I had to send them my address…for my free t-shirt ;)

Great t-shirt quality btw

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